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November & December Bookmarks: 24 New Books by Asian Writers
Across Oceans of Law by Renisa Mawani In 1914 the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru carried 376 passengers from Punjab to Vancouver, where 352 were denied entry, deported back to Calcutta, and fired...
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Eight Encounters with Incarceration in the AAWW Archives
Jackie Wang, the poet and prison abolitionist, was once asked in an interview with AAWW what it means to “cage people.” She said, “If we agree that people have certain basic needs—the need for...
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AAWW Staff Picks: Best of 2018
Zena Agha, Margins Fellow Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen I cannot recommend Notes on a Foreign Country enough, a brilliantly insightful nonfiction narration of an American abroad in...
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What No One Else Sees: A Portfolio of Incarceration Literature
Elizabeth Hawes is incarcerated in Minnesota’s only state prison for women, and one of her jobs is to sit in a glass-encased room and take pictures of prisoners and their loved ones. In “The Prison...
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January Bookmarks: 20 New Books by Asian Writers
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne Set on a council estate during a forty-eight hour period, Booker Prize-longlisted In Our Mad and Furious City “etches a rich picture of contemporary London...
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February Bookmarks: 23 New Books by Asian Writers
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature by Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran, to a new generation of readers. Dabashi traces...
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March Bookmarks: 23 New Books by Asian Writers
Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction ed. by Sunyoung Park and Park Sang Joon This anthology presents a collection of several South Korean science and speculative...
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April Bookmarks: 25 New Books by Asian Writers
Each month over the past two years, The Margins has shared a list of new books out by Asian diasporic writers. Here’s our latest as we launch into spring. Look back into our bookmarks archives to add...
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Fruit: A Call for Nonfiction Submissions
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 15! One of the first connections I felt to my Chinese heritage took the form of a loquat tree that my grandparents planted from a sprout in their first and only home in the...
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Mangosteen, Shanghai Night Market, 2003
The first time I had a mangosteen, at a night market in Shanghai, my aunt taught me to open it by pressing my thumbs in and pulling it apart. It was absolutely eerie–it split down the middle and...
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Introducing the 2020 AAWW Margins Fellows
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the...
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Part I: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Six Writers on Poetry and...
“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing.” Audre Lorde’s lines from her poem “New Year’s Day” serve as a charge and an inspiration to a month of national poetry programming titled “Poetry and...
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Part II: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Four Writers on Poetry and...
“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing.” Audre Lorde’s lines from her poem “New Year’s Day” have served as a charge and an inspiration to a month of national poetry programming titled “Poetry and...
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AAWW Radio: What I Wish I Knew Before I Got My MFA
We’re back on AAWW Radio, ready to beam you our audio events at this surreal moment. We know it’s not the same as joining us in our space, but we hope it’ll help you through this time of isolation. In...
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We’re traveling back in time again this week to bring you the second episode of our AAWW Radio series from our 2016 Publishing Conference, which was held at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. Jennifer...
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In this third episode of our podcast series diving back into our 2016 Publishing Conference held at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, we heard from Jenny Zhang, Alice Sola Kim, and Tony Tulathimutte on...
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Press Play with Celeste Ng, PubCon, and MIZNA
– Welcome to Press Play, a new weekly round-up of our digital programming to keep you company at home. We’re launching a new video series, sharing a podcast series on the world of publishing, and held...
View ArticleAAWW Fave: Migrant Father Fragment
Now that we’ve published over 50 episodes of AAWW Radio, we’re selecting a few of our favorites to republish for our new listeners. One of our earliest episodes is Migrant Father Fragment from 2017...
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